Rio de Janeiro has won the race to host the 2016 Olympics, beating Madrid in the final round of voting. It will be the first time the Games will be held in South America.
Nearly 50,000 people erupted in celebration on Rio's Copacabana beach when t

But the Fox-owned Speed TV, which broadcasts most of the truck races, threw a wrench into those plans by saying it would avoid putting the sponsor on the air, according to a story at MLive.com.

"We have somebody in the works to do it, but TV said they
would avoid us if we had this sponsor, and it's a gun manufacturer,"
Benson said. "We are not sure why that would be the case, but that's
the information they are giving us. We have to choose whether we want
to head down that road or not. We would hate to have good finishes and
run in the top three and have TV avoid us for that reason.

"Originally, I said NASCAR had revoked that, and it wasn't. NASCAR
called me Tuesday after I had said that they had shot it down," Benson
added. "Apparently it is the TV. It is a very interesting scenario. We
have had other (gun) manufacturers in there, and why it is an issue
today, I don't know. I haven't had a conversation with them

[thanks for nothin] A federal appeals court ruled agents had no right to
seize baseball's anonymous drug-testing results from 2003, an infamous
list that tarnished America's pastime and some of its biggest stars.

The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for
the players' union, which has argued for years to have the results of
the 104 players who allegedly tested positive for performance-enhancing
drugs in 2003 returned.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has specific ideas on upgrading the
popularity of soccer in the United States. He hopes he has an eager
listener in President Barack Obama.

Blatter plans to extend a personal invitation to Obama to attend the
2010 World Cup in South Africa when the two meet at the White House on
Monday.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, Blatter said the
invitation has been extended and that he will "confirm it" at the
meeting.

"I know there are people around the president who are football fans,
and that they will make everything possible in his agenda that the
president be at the opening of the World Cup or the final," Blatter
said.

In an effort to clean up its sport, the international governing body of swimming
will require its athletes to show more skin. FINA officials decided to ban the
high-tech swimsuits that have been likened [by idiots] to doping on a hanger.

Traction is incredibly good, due to the grippy material, the separation of the toes,
and the addition of siping, or tiny zigzag cuts etched into the soles that expand into little treads as the sole flexes.

The VFFs are also surprisingly comfortable. Each toe is snuggled
inside its own little pocket, which is not only cozy, it also gives
your feet a surprising amount of feedback about the ground you're
standing on. Your toes, freed from their typical leather prisons, act
like a tiny topography sensor array.

The victory is the 2nd-biggest upset by an American team, behind only the 1980 Miracle on Ice by the hockey team over the Soviet Union in the Olympics. Those Soviets were state-supported professionals, beaten by amateurs from the United States.

Max Talbot scored two goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins overcame an
injury in the second period to captain Sidney Crosby to defeat the
Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in a gripping Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup on
Friday night.

The Penguins won a third Cup in their history and their first since their championships in 1991 and 1992.

In a damp stadium, with several thousand at Nationals Park bearing witness, Johnson, the dominant force in San Francisco's 5-1 win yesterday against the Washington Nationals, became Major League Baseball's 24th 300-game winner. The moment earned its gravitas not just because of history, but because of finality: No active pitcher behind Johnson has strong odds to reach the benchmark. The next 300-game winner might not come around for another generation, and that's only if the next generation produces workhorses like Johnson, who once threw 260 innings in a season. At age 38.

Jim Bowden resigned after four seasons as the Washington Nationals general manager, leaving under the cloud of a federal investigation into the skimming of signing bonuses given to Latin American prospects. He has maintained his innocence in the matt

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After Pittsburgh lost a lead that it had held since the first possession of the game, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and receiver Santonio Holmes moved the Steelers 78 yards and connected for a 6-yard touchdown that Holmes grabbed as he was falling o

"There's probably been 40 or 50 published articles on the economic impact of sporting events, and they uniformly come to the conclusion that there's no noticeable footprint. Nothing statistically significant comes out of that."